GDB 8.2 has
been released. This new version of the GNU Debugger includes
support for RiscV ELF, various Python and Aarch64/Linux enhancements,
improved flexibility for loading symbol files and more. For more details on
all the changes, visit here,
and
you can download it from the ftp site: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gdb.

Greg Kroah-Hartman confirmed that the Linux 4.19 kernel will officially be
the next LTS series, Softpedia
News reports. The 4.19 kernel will be an end-of-year release, likely out in
mid-to-late October of this year.

Cloudera has launched an open-source, IoT architecture in collaboration with
Red Hat and Eurotech. According to the press
release, this end-to-end architecture is "based on open
standards and is integrated, flexible and runs on multi- or hybrid-cloud
environments", and it's "designed to provide the foundational components that
organizations need to quickly and securely roll out IoT use cases".

Purism
announces an update to the production and shipping schedule for the Librem 5, "the
world's first ethical, user-controlled smartphone". Shipping is now planned
for April 2019, due to two silicon bugs that were discovered in the Librem
5's CPU, which is manufactured by NXP. The phones are pre-selling for $599
and run Purism's Free Software Foundation-endorsed PureOS.